private runway

flynrider via AviationKB.com wrote:
wrote:
Any other questions?


Yes. What are you going on about? I thought I was pretty clear in my
first post. The FAA does not care about your landing strip unless you want
it charted. Period.

Now go eat whatever the heck you feel like eating.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

Bull****. Read part 157. You must tell them,
but it's only an notice.

flynrider via AviationKB.com wrote:
wrote:
AFAIK, the FAA only wants to be told about private strips and
doesn't regulate them.

Ron Natalie wrote:
IIRC the FAA only wants to be told about private strips if you want it
included on charts. If you don't, I can't see why they would be
interested.

In many cases, even if the FAA does not require it, your state aviation
organization may. In Ohio, it is required and goes into a database that
is used when the electric companies want to run new power lines into an
area.

The first place to look is your town's zoning ordinance. If it has
one, it probably prohibits "airports" in residential areas. (Probably
not in agricultural areas.)

Now you need a definition of "airport". To me, that means a place open
to the public.

I think the thing to do is talk to your neighbors and ask them if they
have any objection. If they don't, go ahead and do it if it doesn't
cost too much. Maybe just make trial landings to begin.

Then if the town pesters you, look wide-eyed and ask for a variance
based on hardship. You'll get the variance if your neighbors aren't
against you.

If your town doesn't have a zoning ordinance, then so much the better.
But I'd still try to charm the neighbors first.

Good luck!

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
from HarperCollins on August 21 www.flyingtigersbook.com

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:03:09 -0400, Ron Natalie
wrote:

You don't remember correctly. The FAA requires you to notify them 90
days in advance of the construction of any landing facility.

What if there's no construction?

I understand that to mean bulldozers and truckloads of gravel, a
hangar, and a windsock.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
from HarperCollins on August 21 www.flyingtigersbook.com

("Ron Natalie" wrote)
Read part 157. You must tell them, but it's only an notice.


There is a private strip near our airport. The owner DID NOT want it to
appear on ANY charts.

He lost.

http://skyvector.com/#24-117-3-1530-580
Just outside the Class B bulge - on the right side

(pvt)
DUFRESNE
900 - 20

I've been out there and talked with the owner about this very topic.


Paul-Mont

In article ,
"Montblack" wrote:

("Ron Natalie" wrote)
Read part 157. You must tell them, but it's only an notice.


There is a private strip near our airport. The owner DID NOT want it to
appear on ANY charts.

He lost.

http://skyvector.com/#24-117-3-1530-580
Just outside the Class B bulge - on the right side

(pvt)
DUFRESNE
900 - 20

I've been out there and talked with the owner about this very topic.

I think it's reasonable that it should be on the VFR chart, even if the
owner doesn't want it. The purpose of the VFR chart is to let people
navigate visually by depicting landmarks which are visible from the air.
Deliberately omitting a good landmark from a chart (and airstrips usually
make good landmarks) does a dis-service to every VFR pilot who flies in the
area.

On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:55:31 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:


I think it's reasonable that it should be on the VFR chart, even if the
owner doesn't want it. The purpose of the VFR chart is to let people
navigate visually by depicting landmarks which are visible from the air.
Deliberately omitting a good landmark from a chart (and airstrips usually
make good landmarks) does a dis-service to every VFR pilot who flies in the
area.


2000 ft. grass strips look like every other hay field in many parts of
the country, and aren't all that useful as VFR features.

http://skyvector.com/#24-15-2-4755-3128

See Salmon River, right in the middle of the chart? For years, flying
with a chart, I thought it was a hay field. My GPS pointed it out
as an airport.

If it's paved, you've got a point.

On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:52:59 GMT, B A R R Y
wrote:

2000 ft. grass strips look like every other hay field in many parts of
the country, and aren't all that useful as VFR features.

There are uncharted airports in southeastern New Hampshire /
northeastern Massachusetts that have taken me years to suss out. I
have noted them on my edition of Google Earth (a wonderful way to
pre-fly or post-fly a trip). And there are charted airfields that I
have never been able to find, probably because they've been turned
into housing developments.

I started flying in 1999, and once a week I'd drive through Stratham,
a rural community near Exeter NH. For at least six years, something
like 300 commutes, there was either an access road being put in or
houses under construction along the road. Now it's entirely built out,
which has the sad but at least peaceful resolution of no more
construction.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
from HarperCollins on August 21 www.flyingtigersbook.com

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:19:34 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote in :

I have noted them on my edition of Google Earth

How does Google Earth compare with this:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...null&encType=1

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:19:34 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote in :

I have noted them on my edition of Google Earth

How does Google Earth compare with this:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...null&encType=1

Picture quality is better on live but the scroll rate SUCKS compared to
Google Earth.